Metered, not modelled
Solar output in Leeds
677–802 kWh per kWp a year
the middle half of 434 real Leeds systems, measured over 2024
- Systems measured 434
- Median 747
- Best 10% of roofs 829
- Rank of 49 areas 41st
- Typical system size 2.1 kWp
A typical 4 kWp system here made roughly 2,710 to 3,210 units of electricity last year.
Not a forecast. 434 solar systems around Leeds were metered through 2024, and the middle half made 677 to 802 kWh for every kWp of panels.
A good roof does better still: the top tenth here reached around 829 kWh per kWp, against a British median of 766.
Systems here are smaller than typical, a median of 2.1 kWp against 2.9 nationally.
That places Leeds 41st of 49, near the bottom of the areas we can measure — worth knowing rather than glossing over.
At the other end, the quietest tenth of systems here made about 602 kWh per kWp — usually shade, a poor direction, or both.
What none of it tells you is what your own roof would do. These systems point in every direction and some have been up for fifteen years.
The spread behind that number
Every Leeds system, grouped by what it made, against Britain as a whole. The two shapes overlap heavily, which is the honest headline: your postcode nudges the result, your roof decides it.
Leeds: the middle half of 434 systems made 677–802 kWh per kWp.
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Output figures from openclimatefix/uk_pv (Hugging Face, CC-BY-4.0), collected by Sheffield Solar. The British median is 766 kWh per kWp. How we measure.
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